She’s not A-list herself, but Letitia Wright seems to have been a case of Marvel/Disney successfully getting an actor to 1) stop talking publicly, 2) not fatally infect anyone else on the Wakanda Forever set, and 3) deliver a strong lead performance on an A-list movie. It helps if you’re willing to listen to Don…

To go full circle they should release a retro E-Wing Astromech figure with a head that looks like a film accurate R2-D2.

The E-wing astromech’s head is modeled after the original R2-D2 action figure’s head, which never looked like R2-D2. Through all three original movies they kept releasing R2-D2 figures with this face.

It’s great to get details from back before there was no mainstream press or fan community for these films. And seeing these people who have no blueprint for making a great Star Trek movie and don’t know they’re going to succeed. Nicholas Meyer had only been writing and directing for a few years and he leaned on the…

A lot of the pro/con of the Yuuzhan Vong are a matter of taste. Unbeatable assimilating bondage race (but all biological so NOT the Borg) whose swath of apocalyptic destruction render the original movies’ victories irrelevant. Someone who liked it might describe it differently.

This video recap of Sabine’s life story is both enjoyable and establishes much more clearly why she doesn’t want to be a public figure. Short version she’s got massive war trauma and guilt.

And that’s fine. Retcons to make a better story or adapt to out of control changes happen all the time.

A detail I liked was how the severed HK droid heads and Sabine’s armor pieces all felt very heavy. Lifted with effort and set down with a solid THUNK. It made the FX and set dressing feel more tactile.

“Would you take this 10-minute satisfaction survey about the website you just arrived at?”

As a San Francisco resident I can assert that even if you hadn’t drunk Anchor Steam in a while you miss it when it’s gone. There aren’t a lot of amber lagers out there and when it’s on tap it’s more reliably enjoyable than the other taps’ brotastic IPAs.

I had the good fortune to live in Portland in the 90's and enter legal drinking age just as the craft brewing renaissance was in full swing.

Simple, they should convert their offices to retail shops for $899 juice bag squeezers. I tell you this guy’s got that Elon Level Genius.

You’re not thinking like a rock star. THERE IS NO OTHER HALF. It was the next visionary step from 1980's Half Shirt and Half Pants.

It was such a missed opportunity that TNG never did a musical number. The Holodeck was RIGHT THERE. Have Data unexpectedly break into song, the crew start dancing and singing with him, until bleep “Commander Data to the bridge” and bloop “Computer, end program” but only after letting the crew go on singing without him…

I’d be using Threads daily for accounts I want to follow if it had a web version. But I don’t do lots of reading on a phone. I physically can’t.

For a set of HBO subscribers and their latchkey kids it started with the “5th Annual Young Comedians Showcase” in 1980 hosted by Carl Reiner. Pee-Wee Herman arrives fully formed. A year later we got the classic special with Mombi and Cap’n Carl.

She had a whole album “No Veteran Dies Alone” ready to publish and tour for when her son died last year. I dearly hope it gets a proper release.

Another challenge of mapping software is that, on top of the “literal” data like geography, structures, legal and commercial designations that change over time, there are multiple layers of “what people call it” with no single right answer. Especially from a municipal level down: towns, regions, neighborhoods, even…

Kamala the comics character was a fan of all the superheroes, had an early adventure with Wolverine and did Champions with teen Cyclops. So Iman the superfan gets to write Kamala the superfan getting to join the X-Men. I’ve got high hopes. The mutants could use a bit of embiggened sunshine right now.

So the lesson the studios will learn from Barbie is probably “people want brightly colored movies about toys”